To Kill a Mockingbird

Summary: Essay discusses the racial differences in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.

Back in the old days, people discriminated against black people. They would treat them like trash. The white people were treated much better then black people. Today, race relations are better then they were in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there was a lot of discrimination against black people. For instance, Mrs. Dubose told Jem and Scout, "`your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for'" (102)! Even though Atticus is white he is discriminated the way the Negroes are. Atticus is a lawyer and he is defending a black man against a white woman. For example, Atticus tells Scout, "` As you grow older you'll see white men cheat black men every day...'" (220). Just because the Negroes have darker skin they have to do whatever the white people say. White people are the men...